CVE-2007-4130: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Linux kernel 2.6.9 before 2.6.9-67 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on Itanium (ia64) does not properly handle page faults during NUMA memory access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via invalid arguments to set_mempolicy in an MPOL_BIND operation.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4 only

Published 2008-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.